Moody & Mute Mini-Playlist: Friendzone, Forest Swords, 65 Days of Static

Good morning! Here are three cloudy, radiant, epochal instrumental tracks for a Monday where certain people behind certain computer screens may have not actually said any words out loud yet. Friendzone is a Bay Area hip-hop production duo best known for A$AP Rocky’s “Fashion Killa,” and their new track “Poly” will appear on their forthcoming debut LP; then there’s a deep cut from 65daysofstatic, the mid-2000’s purveyors of seething, beautiful instro whose “Radio Protector” was an old favorite of mine; finally there’s the new track from the experimental British artist Forest Swords, whose “Weight of Gold” has been attracting lots of buzz.

Friendzone, “Poly”

65daysofstatic, “Radio Protector”

Forest Swords, “The Weight of Gold”